Gotcha. As others have already mentioned it is obtuse. If you end up at the post via your own instance it works but if someone links directly to the canonical post then you get confronted with needing to login. e.g. I see this post as https://mylemmy.win/post/114914, so I can interact just fine whereas if someone sent me the link to https://lemmy.world/post/1194109 (same post, different entry point) I'm stuck.
It's funny because using the /u/ format seems to work just fine in the web interface, creating the proper link. Typing it out in the @ format doesn't automatically create the hyperlink when I type it, but yours works just fine. ¯(ツ)/¯
There's a difference between a federated identify and single-sign on. Your identity /u/mango_master@lemmy.world IS federated. You don't need to have a separate login for each instance. You can use that identity to interact with any instance much the same way I am using my federated identity to currently respond to you.
ActivityPub is a standard, Lemmy, KBin & Mastodon are open source applications built on the standard. It's the same relationship as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Apache & IIS.
As a client/server architecture, Lemmy is no more or less vulnerable to malicious actors than a web browser or a web server. You're at least as likely to have a rogue admin mishandle data as someone build Evil-Lemmy. While I consider myself a good netizen, if you delete this post right now I'm still going to have a copy for at least six months because that's my current backup retention for this instance.
I'm no GDPR expert but I can't see how an instance owner who does comply with GDPR can be punished for instances they don't control not deleting federated data. There are ongoing conversations throughout the Fediverse on this topic.
Sounds more like they’re going after Grande. Belief being the testimony would allow them to build a case that Grande incited or somehow induced privacy which would strip them from a number of legal protections that may apply to service providers.
I'll contribute that my intent with this post is not evangelism. I like the voting system and would be disappointed to see it disappear.
A vote in Reddit was, from a practical perspective, anonymous. While it was recorded in the database and admins had access to this information there were mitigations in place to deter abuse and the end result was that the person you up or down voted was not going to know that YOU, personally, downvoted them. It was also of limited value to external data sifters in creating social graphs.
Since Lemmy votes are non-anonymously propagated across the Fediverse and, literally, anyone can be an admin there are people who may want to reconsider whether they upvote or downvote a particular post or comment. The actual reasons may vary; they don't want to be outed as sympathetic to a political view or cause, they don't want it used a social graph for targeted advertising or even spear-phishing. In many cases there will be people who don't care at all.
Just trying to contribute to transparency. Not everyone can read code, sift data or visualize how a social network would work behind the scenes. There's plenty of opportunities for others to use our data, good and evil. I believe that efforts to bring to light non-obvious consequences of actions is good citizenship.
That's not always the case. My username has heritage dating back all the way through to Slashdot, Digg and through Reddit. While you may not know me that doesn't mean I'm unknown or anonymous.
On Reddit I could upvote or downvote as I pleased, without exposing my POV on controversial topics to the general populace. Only commenting would actually out me. That's not the case with Lemmy and making people aware of that is a good thing, imo.
The application doesn’t, which is a very good thing, in my opinion. Instance admins will still have that data but that’s limited to your local administrator. It’s not federated.
Three hours since official launch and top personalities have already amassed 100K+ followers. Not sure what the official headcount is on Mastodon these days but those counts already surpass the total number of users on Lemmy.
Just muddling around I've built queries that:
(a) list all of my post & comments, everybody who voted on them, and their votes
(b) tally how many times specific users have upvoted or downvoted me.
(c) identifies the most prolific voters across the Fediverse and the communities they are voting in
(d) identifies users with the same username or display name across all instances and correlates the activities across those accounts.
These are all for the sake of learning and are innocuos the way I'm using them. It is plain to see that someone with skills and an agenda could make more out of it than I have.
Another example of YSK. The lack of a karma system is a fallacy. It's only because the devs haven't surfaced the data, as karma, in the user interface.
Going by Reddit standards, your post karma is 54 and your comment karma is 527.
The data is all there and there are alternative clients who do provide it in that manner.
I don't agree that there's been no pushback with regards to Facebook. Plenty of privacy advocates dissuade people from using it at all.
The lack of anonymity with regards to the upvote/downvote thing is just one example of things that might not be obvious to the typical user. Another would be consideration for people who moved away from Reddit so they would "stop slurping up my data". Thing is, the way the Fediverse works, pretty much anybody in the world can slurp up a much of the same data.
Muddybulldog @ muddybulldog @mylemmy.win Posts 6Comments 294Joined 2 yr. ago
Tricky situation. False positives happen and a significant amount of what AppCleaner picks up is technically “user data”.